BOOKS

MY
SHADOW BRIDE
A phantasmagorical tale of a Los Angeles crooner racketeer Jimmy Vargas
and his affair with a Sorceress from the San Francisco Mission Liliana
Scarlatta, who is the avatar of Hollywood Queens of the nineteen
forties, Hayworth, Ava Gardner, and the infamous Black Dahlia.

Los Angeles
July 1947…Small time racketeer Jimmy
Vargas scams scores a berth as a fixit
guy for mobster producer Johnny
Roselli's production set up at glitter
gulch studio Eagle Lion Pictures.
Enter WW 2 hero priest, one Father
Ragland 'The Parachutin Padre' who
convinces Roselli to pony up some seed money for a bio-pic about
America’s first female saint. The movie turns out to be a
propaganda front of Raglands to promote his new Catholic armitrix
against the communist in-surge
in cold war America, with the seductive Maria
Salvez served up as the Madonna of his
fledgling Church.